The Perfection will get on your nerves in the best possible way

The Perfection, while a flawed psychological thriller, has a disturbing, distrustful energy that builds impressively. Allow this refreshingly unorthodox movie to get you in and it will unnerve you.

Though definitely a psychological thriller front-loaded with obvious flaws, The Perfection backs itself to get the job done.

So it comes to pass, due largely to a riskily manic desire to keep viewers wide awake and wondering what the hell is coming next.

Allison Williams (the devious devourer of boyfriends in that game-changing horror hit Get Out) stars as Charlotte, a former American cello prodigy who abandoned a glittering career to care for her dying mother.

Logan Browning and Alison Williams.

Years later, she reconnects with her former mentors, Anton (Steven Weber) and Paloma (Alaina Huffman), who are now plying their trade in China.

Anton and Paloma have since launched another genius cellist, Lizzie (Logan Browning), to the big time. She just happens to be in Shanghai following a recent world tour.

What Charlotte has in mind for Lizzie — whom she befriends, beds and bizarrely abandons in rapid succession — remains difficult to fathom (and often, hard to stomach) throughout.

A stunning sequence where Charlotte and Lizzie take a seemingly innocuous bus ride into the Chinese countryside — only for the journey to take the most macabre detour in a matter of seconds — is indicative of just what rare power The Perfection is packing in the right circumstances.

The Perfection does an erase-and-rewind storytelling device that won’t please everyone.

Without giving too much away, the script does use an erase-and-rewind storytelling device that can and will be deployed in The Perfection at short notice.

The jury is sure to be out on this Groundhog Day-ish aspect of the movie. Personally, I felt it lent The Perfection a disturbing, distrustful energy that builds impressively.

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Allow this refreshingly unorthodox movie to get you in, and it will get on your nerves in the best possible way.

However, if you do fail to stay on the same wavelength, The Perfection will get on your bad side and won’t be budged.

THE PERFECTION (MA15+)

Director: Richard Shephard (The Matador)

Starring: Allison Williams, Logan Browning, Steven Weber, Alaina Huffman.

Rating: *** (3 out of 5)

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